Port Chester to ease access to Edgewood Park

7:53 PM,
Nov. 22, 2012

Port Chester plans to buy this residential property, 201 Grace Church St., to provide parking and access to the neighboring Edgewood Park. The Saline family sold almost five acres to create the park in the 1950s and is now selling the vacant house and land around it. (Leah Rae/The Journal News)

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Leah Rae

The village plans to spend $300,000 for a slice of residential property that could improve access to a well-hidden, little-used park.

Edgewood Park is a 3-acre tract of fields and playground space off Grace Church Street, boxed in by Interstate 95 and rows of back yards. There's a narrow driveway out to the street, alongside the house where former Trustee Anthony Saline grew up.

Saline's parents sold land for the park, their onetime farm, in the mid-1950s and kept a narrow tract of land with the two-story house. Both parents are deceased, and the family put the quarter-acre parcel up for sale ...